Fri-El

Location:

Italy

Surface:

5,4 ha.

Cultivation:

Tomatoes

Description:

Just below Venice, the Fri-El project can be found: A greenhouse of 10,8 hectares, built in two phases. By the end of 2017, the second phase of 5,4 hectares was completed, which is a duplicate of the previously built 5,4 hectares. Certhon was responsible for all the technical installations in this second tomato greenhouse.

Fri-El

The greenhouse is divided into six sections where different types of tomatoes can be grown. The customer provided two of these departments with LED lighting, in the near future all departments will be provided with LED lighting. Fri-El uses a glass greenhouse, something that is quite unique in Italy; most of the time, investors choose for foil greenhouses.

The background of the customer lies in the renewable energy (wind, hydro, biomass and biogas installations). Therefore, a part of the heat in the greenhouse comes from its own biogas plants. In the second week of October 2017, the crops were placed in the first two compartments of the greenhouse, a few weeks later the whole greenhouse was filled up.